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> > gschem work pretty well, no problem to draw any circuit I want.
> 
> Gschem has its warts, but its quite a lot nicer than PCB, I agree. 
> Still, there is much to be done even with gschem.

I say warts are mostly workflow related.

> I ve never really felt the need to inser graphics into PCB although as 
> it is now, it can be quite limiting. Arbitrary arcs would be nice, 
> elipses and elliptic arcs, beziers too etc.

Not graphics but to draw any shape in any context like all the ordinary drawing primitives within pins. Possibility to define a pin type which could be used for all pins in a particular package type for example LQFP would be very useful.

> But some features are awesome. Coleague of mine was left flabergasted 
> when he saw how easily did I combine several PCBs onto a panel without 
> any extra tools before sending it to manufacturing, for example.

Yes ordinary copy and paste is simple and powerful. There is however a selection problem which could be solved by adding a "sub layout" attribute to objects then for example all objects including traces belonging to a power supply could be selected and moved.


Regards Nicklas Karlsson